Drifting is back
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Ship your truck to Patrick, rent a new f150 for a couple weeks then everything will be done. Problem solved!
I've already made one 500 mile round trip to get him to do the plugs in that 07 5.4. And about to make another trip to see him next month.
I would brag a little more on him but dont want his head to get to big!
I've already made one 500 mile round trip to get him to do the plugs in that 07 5.4. And about to make another trip to see him next month.
I would brag a little more on him but dont want his head to get to big!
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Pat is a rare breed. My hope is someday I have the ability to do that type of work and help people like myself now.
George I'm just trying to watch the money I still only work part time. 40+ hours at crap pay sucks.
Truck goes in Monday. The local shop is gonna go through it.
George I'm just trying to watch the money I still only work part time. 40+ hours at crap pay sucks.
Truck goes in Monday. The local shop is gonna go through it.
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Just got off the phone. The shop had the truck since yesterday. They couldn't find anything loose. Alignment was off. Toe... exactly what I noticed. They heard the clunking when I took a tech yesterday. They can't get it to do it now. If it's not fixed I'm stuck with it until I get a daily.
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I'm not sure but it drives better. Clunk still is there. I have a spare set of sway bar bushings so I'll swap them out for giggles
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OK so update time. The truck overall has driven decent. Horrid over bumps, shakes, banging is all still there. I think I'm going to have to change the lca bushings and shock mounts. I'm looking for full time jobs. I can't be worried about this trying to get to anew job saving for a DD. So pissed. I'm going to take a video, but God this needs to be fixed. I did some tests yesterday. The only banging I got was when each wheel was lifted and I turned it back and forth. It was the noise that the rack makes when the truck is off and column locked. I can't find anything loose.
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Solved the problem:
Thanks man, I wanted brand new though... appreciate the offer though.
Well I tackled this Thursday night. Never done anything like this before but I did it. Pat had told me a trick with the jack to get the LCA out off the spindle taper and it worked like a charm. Crazy how much work is involved to get the the point of removal but I got the LCA out. Came out with no issues. Took me about 4-5 hours (again, never done anything like this before) and I find out that the bushing looks to be in great condition. Put the new one on and finished that side Friday morning. The lower BJ had a small bit of play so that was worth it. Just odd since it's only a year old.
At this point I'm thinking something else must be going on. I didn't want to go through replacing parts I didn't have to so as I'm slowly going through the passenger side, I went to move the sway bar end-link and it's frozen vertically:
On the left, that was frozen straight. I had to smash it once I got it off and then it had a ton of play/slop. When I got the replacement from the Parts shop in town, I saw that it had a grease fitting on that joint and this one did not. (both are Moog Btw). For less than a 2 year old part I was disappointed. My theory was that since it was frozen and could not articulate, it would smash up on the bar over every bump and cause the obnoxious bumping and scary handling. Turns out this was correct. That stupid freaking end-link caused that. I'm so glad I caught this before I tore the passenger side anymore. Unreal. Aligned at Ford and finally after 2+ years of dealing with moron shops, bad parst, a million alignments, she's driving good! I consider the drivers side LCA replacement a good bang-for-the-buck course since it was $150 and I got to learn more.
Well I tackled this Thursday night. Never done anything like this before but I did it. Pat had told me a trick with the jack to get the LCA out off the spindle taper and it worked like a charm. Crazy how much work is involved to get the the point of removal but I got the LCA out. Came out with no issues. Took me about 4-5 hours (again, never done anything like this before) and I find out that the bushing looks to be in great condition. Put the new one on and finished that side Friday morning. The lower BJ had a small bit of play so that was worth it. Just odd since it's only a year old.
At this point I'm thinking something else must be going on. I didn't want to go through replacing parts I didn't have to so as I'm slowly going through the passenger side, I went to move the sway bar end-link and it's frozen vertically:
On the left, that was frozen straight. I had to smash it once I got it off and then it had a ton of play/slop. When I got the replacement from the Parts shop in town, I saw that it had a grease fitting on that joint and this one did not. (both are Moog Btw). For less than a 2 year old part I was disappointed. My theory was that since it was frozen and could not articulate, it would smash up on the bar over every bump and cause the obnoxious bumping and scary handling. Turns out this was correct. That stupid freaking end-link caused that. I'm so glad I caught this before I tore the passenger side anymore. Unreal. Aligned at Ford and finally after 2+ years of dealing with moron shops, bad parst, a million alignments, she's driving good! I consider the drivers side LCA replacement a good bang-for-the-buck course since it was $150 and I got to learn more.